A group of three jade scabbard slides, Western Han dynasty | 西漢 瓦溝紋玉劍璏一組三件

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1994-2002.

1994至2002年購於香港

See two scabbard slides with similar patterns of the tile grooves excavated from the tomb of the early Western Han dynasty, now in the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, illustrated in Shaanxi Chutu Handai Yuqi [Han Dynasty Jades Unearthed in Shaanxi], Beijing, 2009, pls. 155 and 156. See also a Western Han-dynasty example with similar carvings, slightly shorter but related to the longest scabbard slide in the present lot, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 253, pl. 21:13.

青白玉質，三件表面皆砣碾出瓦楞形槽，惟形制有別，兩件上下齊平，一件上長下短。

參考陝西考古研究院藏兩件西漢早期墓出土之瓦溝紋玉劍璏，見《陝西出土漢代玉器》，北京，2009年，圖版155及156。大英博物館亦藏一件與本組最長者類似之西漢瓦溝紋劍璏，稍短之，見Jessica Rawson著，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995，頁253，圖版21:13。